Here’s something you probably never thought about while watching Cops : Does being followed around by a camera crew affect the way police officers do their jobs? That’s the question being posed by the family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. The 7-year-old Detroit girl was shot and killed in her bedroom by a stray bullet last Sunday while police searched for a murder suspect with a camera crew for the A&E series The First 48 in tow.
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Did Reality TV Help Kill This 7-Year-Old Girl?
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What a difference three years — and one really bad sequel — makes. When Shrek the Third opened over this weekend in 2007, it grossed $38 million on Friday; Shrek Forever After , however, could only score $20 million yesterday, this despite the added benefit of higher ticket prices and 3D. Yikes. No reason to start a collection for Dreamworks Animation, but Shrek Forever After will likely wind up around $50 million short of its predecesor come Sunday. Elsewhere, weep for Will Forte. MacGruber grossed an embarrassing $1.5 million on Friday and will be lucky to close out the weekend with more than $5 million. Insert bomb related pun here. The top-five after the jump.
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Friday Box Office: Unhappily Ever After
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The 63rd Cannes Film Festival may be nearing its end, but IFC Films’ Croisette buying spree isn’t. The distributor today announced its acquisition of Gregg Araki’s hot-and-heavy “comical thriller” Kaboom as well as the Mexican cannibal flick We Are What We Are . Neither have release dates as of yet, though We Are will appear in theaters and on VOD under the distributor’s new IFC at Midnight platform.
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Gregg Araki’s Kaboom Latest Cannes Pick-Up
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Gordon Ramsay’s tying up the second season of Kitchen Nightmares with a traumatizing version of a retrospective. Will knives be hurled? Will faces be eaten? Bien sur! Hopefully the featured restaurateurs will have learned from their last run-ins with Ramsay, who’s revisiting them with the blind hope that they’ve changed their laggard, Yankee ways.
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Hey, Mike Myers! You haven’t toplined a film since the 2008 bomb The Love Guru . What have you been up to since? “Right now, I’m kind of obsessed with Col. Sanders,” says Myers, who has produced over 15 oil paintings of the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder. “There’s no chicken in the paintings. It’s just not a subject that usually has serious portraiture applied to it. Now, he’s just a two-dimensional person, and it just tickled me to paint him.” [ LAT ]
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Mike Myers, KFC Portraitist
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Apparently, when nobody was looking, Justin Bieber was cast as one of the Volturi in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse . Or maybe it’s just a scowly, (un)dead ringer pictured above at right in the Eclipse banner just released. At left, Eddie Munster seems to have made the cut as well. Congrats to both. [ Summit Entertainment ]
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Hey, What’s Justin Bieber Doing in the New Eclipse Banners?
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Bret Easton Ellis has written six books (his seventh, Imperial Bedrooms, comes out next month ), and all six have been optioned by Hollywood. Of those six, four were made into movies, and they run the gamut from iconic to underseen, acclaimed to lambasted. Each day this week, Ellis will tackle a different adaptation of his books for Movieline, giving his take on what worked, what didn’t, and what went on behind the scenes. Gregor Jordan’s The Informers begins with a quick, abrupt car accident, but to hear Bret Easton Ellis tell it, the production was something like a car crash in slow motion. Though it’s the only adaptation of Ellis’s novels where he actually served as a producer and co-writer on the film, he’s not happy with how it turned out, and he’s hardly alone. When The Informers was released last year, audiences stayed away and critics were scathing (pundit Devin Faraci, unwilling to review the film according to a normal ratings system, scored it a “F**k God out of 10”).
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Bret Easton Ellis on How The Informers Went Wrong
Mock The CW if you will, but it appears they have learned from past mistakes. Or at least from the now-jettisoned Melrose Place . The schedule of shows that the Little Network That Really Can’t tossed out for the fall season this morning is filled with smart risks, logical pairings and plenty of demographically friendly content. If only NBC was this clear-eyed in their goals. Alert your teenage daughter and read on for the full schedule.
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The CW Fall Schedule Embraces Logic, Vampires
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